reign

See also: Reign

English

Alternative forms

• raygne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English regnen, borrowed from Old French regner, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun regnum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪn/

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• Homophones: rain, rein
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

reign (plural reigns)

1. The exercise of sovereign power.

   England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.

   • Prior

     Saturn's sons received the threefold reign / Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.

2. The period during which a monarch rules.

   The reign of Victoria was a long one.

3. The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

The exercise of sovereign power

• Arabic: حُكْم‎‎ (ar) m (ḥukm)

  Hijazi Arabic: حُكُم‎‎ m (ħukum)

• Armenian: թագավորում (hy) (tʿagavorum), թագավորություն (hy) (tʿagavorutʿyun)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: regnat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vláda (cs)
• Dutch: troon (nl) m, bestuur (nl) n, heerschappij (nl) f
• Esperanto: regado
• Finnish: hallituskausi, valta-aika
• French: règne (fr) m
• Galician: reinado m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Herrschaft (de) f, Regentschaft f
• Hungarian: uralom (hu)
• Italian: regno (it) m

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: فه‌رمان ڕه‌وایه‌تی‎‎

• Latgalian: vaļdeit, kienēt
• Latvian: valdīt
• Lingala: konza
• Lithuanian: valdyti
• Norwegian: maktutøvelse m
• Polish: rządy
• Portuguese: reinado (pt) m, reinado (pt) m
• Russian: правле́ние (ru) n (pravlénije), ца́рствование (ru) (cárstvovanije), верховная власть (verxovnaja vlastʹ), властвование (ru) (vlastvovanije)
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: vladavina (sl) f
• Spanish: reinado (es) m
• Swedish: regering (sv) c, maktutövning
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: devir (tr)

The period during which a monarch rules

• Armenian: թագավորում (hy) (tʿagavorum), թագավորություն (hy) (tʿagavorutʿyun)
• Catalan: regnat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: panování n
• Danish: regeringstid c
• Dutch: regering (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hallituskausi, valta-aika
• French: règne (fr) m
• Galician: reinado m
• German: Regentschaft f
• Hungarian: uralom (hu)
• Italian: regno (it) m

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regjeringstid m, f

  Nynorsk: regjeringstid f

• Polish: panowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: reinado (pt) m
• Russian: правле́ние (ru) n (pravlénije), ца́рствование (ru) n (cárstvovanije)
• Slovene: vladavina (sl) f
• Spanish: reinado (es) m
• Swedish: regering (sv) c, regeringstid (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: devir (tr)
• Vietnamese: triều đại (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Novial: ^{(please verify)} regiro

Verb

reign (third-person singular simple present reigns, present participle reigning, simple past and past participle reigned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch.
   • 2007, Anna Chilewska, Writing after the gaze: the rupture of the historical

     The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.

   He reigned in an autocratic manner.

Translations

exercise sovereign power

• Armenian: թագավորել (hy) (tʿagavorel), գահակալել (hy) (gahakalel)
• Aromanian: vãsilipsescu, amirãripsescu, dumnescu
• Catalan: regnar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vládnout (cs)
• Dutch: regeren (nl)
• Finnish: hallita (fi)
• French: régner (fr)

  Old French: regner

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: herrschen (de), regieren (de)
• Hungarian: uralkodik (hu)
• Italian: regnare (it)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ngazidja Comorian: uruma, utawala
• Norwegian: regjere (no)
• Novial: regira
• Portuguese: reinar (pt)
• Romanian: domni (ro)
• Russian: пра́вить (ru) impf (právitʹ), ца́рствовать (ru) (cárstvovatʹ)
• Slovene: vladati (sl)
• Spanish: reinar (es)
• Swedish: regera (sv), härska (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Grein, Negri, Niger, niger, nigre, re-nig